Word: guerrilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...humble way," says Ronnie Davis, director of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, "to destroy the United States," That is the modest ambition of several groups of strolling players who consider themselves collectively to be proponents of "guerrilla theater," Performing on street corners or on flatbed trucks, earning their keep by pass-the-hat collections, these dramatic revolutionaries have but one purpose: to "radicalize" their audiences into action and rebellion, Recently, three of the best-known guerrilla organizations -the Mime Troupe, New York City's Bread and Puppet Theater and California's El Teatro Campesmo-gathered at San Francisco...
...these revolutionary performers, the heart of drama is political or social "confrontation," Repelled by what they consider to be the sterile fantasy land of conventional playhouses, the guerrilla troupes prefer the realism of open-air settings for dramatizing their message to children, students, workers and activists. Naturally, the values of the Broadway stage are anathema to them. "You cannot respond to junk like Tennessee Williams or Arthur Miller," insists Luis Valdez, an alumnus of the Mime Troupe and founder of El Teatro Campesino. "Art is communication. The more artful you are, the more straight-telling you are." This is roughly...
Plastic Mentality. Oldest of the guerrilla theaters is the Mime Troupe, founded in 1959 by Davis, who had studied mime in Paris on a Fulbright scholarship. Initially, he and his company of 23 performers-as with most of the guerrilla troupes, few have had any previous professional experience-specialized in silent, Chaplinesque skits. Despite its name, the troupe has since broken loudly into song and speech; and its repertory, performed around the country, includes Renaissance commedia dell'arte, Moliere farces and group-created modern morality plays with so much bawdry that the actors have been arrested by local authorities...
...Yugoslav battle plan calls for the army simply to slow down an enemy advance for six or seven days. After that, the Yugoslavs will fall back on what they call "our own tradition" for dealing with the invaders. It is, of course, guerrilla warfare, an art in which Tito has few peers. During World War II, Tito's partisans tied down as many as 25 German divisions, succeeded in taking control of large parts of the country even before the advancing Red army marched...
Ever since the Soviet aggression against Czechoslovakia, Tito's old guerrilla system has been unobtrusively infused with new life. Groups of young men disappear from their villages for a few days into the mountains, where old partisans and army experts show them the location of arms caches, teach them how to use the weapons and instruct them in the use of radio transmitters. In addition, thousands of workers are being organized into irregular militia at their plants. All told, the Yugoslavs could probably put about one million men into their rugged, forbidding hills to harass any invader with guerrilla...